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The Pure Elements Water HealthyHome Solution is designed for people who own their own home and/or have access to the incoming water main. It will filter all the water coming into your home.

However, what do you do if you do not own the place you live? Can you still effectively filter the water?

Yes and No. You can filter your drinking water and water you use for cooking but not your shower water. We do not recommend the little shower water filters. They do not make enough of a difference to bother with them. They are too small to handle the amount of water run them and remove enough chemicals to justify their expense.

However, if you do not own your home but would like to filter your drinking water, we recommend two types of filtration systems.

You will taste the difference and receive the benefits from either one of these filters immediately after installing them.

The first recommend drinking water system is the under the counter reverse osmosis system. This type of system will remove the majority of contaminants your water supply might contain.

The second recommend drinking water system for non-home owners is the large carbon block type water filter. These can be either installed on top of the counter or under the sink utilizing a dedicated dispensing faucet. You can read more about our recommended filters of this type on this page.

Hi, this is Rick from Pure Elements, and we are experts at preventing future pinhole leaks in copper plumbing. Chloramines are the disinfectant that are plaguing the coast in California. The levels have more quadrupled in the last four years and crossed the tipping point, so they are eating your metal from the inside out. We focus on chloramine filters and the reduction of chloramine to levels below detectable in lab tests so that we can help you prevent future pinhole leaks. Chloramine filters are not created equal. It is a very tricky process to effectively get those out of your water, and it’s important to get them out not only to protect your copper piping infrastructure, but also for health concerns and other issues in the home. So we can help you prevent the pinhole leaks and we look forward to working with you.

Fitz: My long-time friend and supporter and water guru expert, Rick Allen, on the phone with me from CrystalClear Home. Good morning, Rick.

Rick: Good morning, Fitz. How are you? Hey, I want an invitation to that dinner, though.

Fitz: I’m telling you, man. You know, Barry Minniefeld was on “The Voice” last year, if you didn’t know. He was one of the stars of Season 8, he’s a desert resident and entertains us out here on a regular basis. And was the executive chef at The Improv in L.A for about 10 years, and became close friends with Jay Leno and Roseanne and a whole list of George Wallace holistic comedians. He has gone on after that opening for them in Vegas, and has forged long-time friendships with them. And he’s been talking about all of these culinary taste treats that he whips up and all these different dishes. And I’ve just been salivating all morning, Rick. So I’m starving right now.

Rick: You’re gonna have to have a big lunch.

Fitz: I’m telling you, baby. So Rick has CrystalClear Home, the water filtration system, Barry. Now, as a chef, you’ll be interested in this. Because if you have a CrystalClear Home water filtration system in your home, when you rinse those vegetables off and everything, you’re not getting any chlorine on them and you’re not getting any pharmaceuticals, which is in our drinking water, as you know, these days. You’re not getting chromium-6, you’re not getting arsenic. This is all the stuff that’s in the regular drinking water. But if you had a CrystalClear Home water filtration system, you could drink worry-free from every faucet in your home. You could shower worry-free because, you know, you ingest that chlorine in your body through its pores. Soaks that stuff in.

Rick: And through your lungs too.

Fitz: Through your lung…wow, I didn’t even think about that, Rick.

Rick: Yeah, it’s all aerosol.

Fitz: Okay.

Rick: So it’s in that steam.

Fitz: Okay. It’s in the steam, that’s right and you suck that in and you’re thinking you’re taking a nice healthy shower and you feel good. Lord knows what you’ve ingested. So as a chef, you should check out this CrystalClear Home water filtration system. It’ll actually make your food taste cleaner.

Man: What if I rent?

Fitz: What if he rents, Rick?

Rick: Well…

Fitz: Talk to landlord into getting…

Rick: Exactly. Start talking to that landlord and then take it with you when you go.

Fitz: There you go, and take it with you when you go. Talk to landlord. Because it’s a unit, they put it outside your property. And it even takes care of the landscaping as well. You use less water, less fertilizer. Makes your landscaping more vibrant green, and you know that salt leaching you see around the pool, those white spots and stuff, gets rid of that as well.

Man: I’m going talk to my landlord about that.

Fitz: There you go. All right, Rick. Did we cover everything?

Rick: Well, yeah. I don’t have anything to say. I just kind of wanted to take a quick run-down of the five things that we do when we do a total property system.

Fitz: Right, the five points. I love this.

Rick: And you’ve really touched on them. My biggest passion is getting the chemicals and things out of the bath and shower water because that is the greatest area of exposure to the potentially harmful things. And it is aerosol and in the steam. So you’re right. You’re taking in through your pores and through your lungs. That’s a much more direct shot into the blood stream than me giving you a glass of water with that stuff in it, and you have at least…you’ve got the digestive track and the organs to do some filtering. But through the pores and lungs, that’s not good.

So we’re all about creating a chemical-free home living environment and bathing experience, that’s number one. And then you touched on it, the drinking water from every faucet. It’s chemical-free, we’ve addressed the heavy metals. It tastes great, it has the natural mineral content left in place and it’s slightly alkaline. So somewhere in our desert, maybe 7.6 to 7.8, slightly alkaline. It seems like the health care and longevity guys are on that path right now, that that seems to be the optimum for drinking water. So we wanna give that from every faucet.
And then, you know, we’re reducing the hard water issues throughout the interior of the home without a softener. Using a chemical-free, salt-free approach. Doesn’t create the slimy feeling like you can’t get the soap off.
It doesn’t require you feeding big bags of salt into it or any of those things, and it’s environmentally friendly. So that’s a great way to help protect the asset, protect your fixtures and appliances and get better results in laundry, and dishwashing and all of those things. So those are the kind of the interior things. I thought today I’d just take a second and talk about the last two things that we do in a total property system, and you touched on them.

The first one is landscape irrigation. When you have a total property system, you are able to, first, protect the infrastructure of your irrigation system, your bubblers and your control valves and all of those different things.

And secondarily, you’re able to cut back your water usage and your fertilizer usage. In big applications like golf courses that might be using 3,000,000 gallons of water a day, we can actually cut their water volume and fertilizer by about 40% and their pumping costs by somewhere along the lines of like 23 to 27%. It’s a tough nut for the golf courses because they have to come up with a chunk of cash.

But it ultimately will probably be something they’ll be revisiting, as we continue to deal with imported water and drought conditions and all that stuff. But on your landscape and your house and everything, like you said. Really what you see is everything is much more vibrant and kinda grows like crazy. It’s interesting – in a golf community, when you drive down the street, you see houses that have one of our systems and it’s kind of the me-too landscaping a little bit in the entryways and things. You’ll be able to pick ours out because all the green stuff has grown twice as crazy as everything else and you can really see it. So that’s very helpful also, to be able to cut that water volume back. With what’s going on with the restrictions, and especially Palm Springs is pretty tight right now. So that’s the benefit there.

Fitz: These are great points, Rick. I wanna go back real quick and just to emphasize, and this is something that we don’t really think about, but your pipes, a lot of places have old plumbing and old cast iron pipes and fixtures and stuff. And this is a great way, as you said, to preserve your infrastructure.

Rick: Absolutely, absolutely. Sorry, I was just taking a sip of good water there. But yeah, absolutely. Everything that you have and own, this helps to protect it and extend the life of it. And that kind of leads to the last or fifth thing, which you had touched on also, which is swimming pools. Nothing is perfect. Swimming pools are an art piece unto themselves, and they’re an open-air body of water, so you’re always gonna have some stainings and some issues.

But by having the pool filled and continually re-filled with water through the system, we’re able to reduce the staining at the water line.

We’re able to actually protect that infrastructure, so the recirculating pumps and all of those different things, and reduce the staining at the spillways on the stack stone and all of those different areas. So that’s been quite an added benefit also. In fact, some people buy the system just to try to enhance the beauty of their pool and spa.

Fitz: You see that all the time. It’s frustrating for homeowners who have those beautiful stack stone and maybe paver walls and stuff around the pool and then they see all this white leaching and stuff. And that’s the beauty of CrystalClear Home is that you don’t have to deal with that.

Rick: Well, it really helps. It certainly dramatically affects the surface situation, where water sits on the surface and evaporates. There is this situation where the stone in the desert, water can leach underneath and then it actually wicks up through the concrete. And if the contractors didn’t put in a moisture barrier, then what happens is it comes up and it’s kind of interesting. It’ll create some spotting in the middle of nowhere and you’ll kind of wonder. You say, “We don’t have any sprinklers there. There’s no water there. Why do we have a spot there that looks like we have water?” That’s kind of a desert phenomenon. But I actually, in my house on the Coast, have concrete floors and we actually have that occur in certain areas at certain times of the year. So we’re super ultra conservative and wanna provide exceptional quality water and everything that we can do.

So we can’t deal with anything coming up, but we certainly can deal with stuff…surface-mounted… And like you said, it’s sprinkler spraying on a wall, that’s kind of one more interesting thing to do when we wrap up. But it seems to me that everyone should be aware that using traditional sprinklers that spray into the air, and you drive by and you see all this mist and everything, how much of that water is really getting to the plant life. So it’s quite wasteful. There are rotary sprinklers now that use maybe 40% less water. When you have water ending up on a glass window or on a stone wall, as you mentioned or whatever, part of the issue there is to rethink your landscaping and get that water close to or on the ground. So all the bubblers and rotary sprinkler and things that are out right now. Just go to your Home Depot or your Lowes and ask them for that, you can change your heads out and you’ll save up a lot of water. And you’ll minimize the problems that occur, especially when water in the desert gets on the glass. That’s a real pain to remove.

Fitz: That’s so annoying. Rick, I’m going to lobby for you to change your name from Rick Allen to Rick Waterman. Okay? Because you are the water man. Okay?

Rick: I think that’s been taken, Fitz, but I appreciate it.

Fitz: I like Rick Waterman, I’m gonna have to lobby for that. 346-4850, that’s the number to call to get your own CrystalClear Home water filtration system. You can check them out online, crystalclearhome.com. As always, Rick, great information and a great time of year for people to look into this. You make the process so smooth and we’re going through a new installation of another place where we’re gonna have your product, which I’m excited about. We’re gonna talk about that when it’s all done and will be posting some pictures on Facebook and everything and show everyone that Wendy and I do walk the walk and talk the talk.

So crystalclearhome.com or 346-4850, ask for Rick. If he’s not around, he’ll get back with you and you’ll answer anyone’s questions. You know so much about this. I’m so impressed and the water is coming up in the conversation big time, with the drought and everything that’s going on with our water in the valley here. You are the water man. 346-4850, always a pressure, Rick. Once again, thanks for all your support and…

Rick: We’re gonna see you on Sunday. Aren’t we?

Fitz: Yes.

Rick: In a different capacity.

Fitz: Yeah. I’m looking forward to jamming with you in the Pinch Me! band at Pierce Street Annex, 17th Street in Costa Mesa for OC homies. If you’re around, come on by and have some fun. We’ll be there late afternoon.

Rick: That’s sounds great, Fitz. Looking forward to it and appreciate talking to you, as always.

Fitz: Thank you so much, Rick. Thanks for the support and we’ll keep spreading the word for you.

We think you will be surprised to learn how much Chromium-6 is in your Orange County and Southern California city water. The video below gives you a quick run through of the EWG website and overview of the article featuring Erin Brockovich. It goes over what Hexavalent Chromium is and why it is so dangerous to everyone’s health.

The video highlight for us is when the narrator gets to the Interactive Chromium-6 map. You see how you can plug your zip code into the map and find out exactly how much Chromium-6 your OC city tap water contains. But be sure to watch the video because the author tells you what the different testing numbers mean. We think you will be shocked.

Click on the map image and you will go straight to the interactive map. Here you can put your zip code in.

Tap water is safe in most (though not all) US cities, though if you want the peace of mind that filtered water brings, this bottle can test for contamination and purify your water on the go.
The Ecomo bottle has a built-in water quality tester that can detect pollutants, including pesticides, dissolved minerals, petroleum products, and heavy metals like lead and mercury. To use the device, you shake the bottle to send water into the tester; the system is connected to an app on your phone, and sends test results via Bluetooth.

From there, you can read the water temperature and track the impurities in your water. The app will then give your water a quality rating out of 10.
The device cleans the water through a three-layered filter, which looks like a net inside the bottle. One layer of the filter is made of activated charcoal, which removes chlorine, pesticides, and petroleum — the things that can add a “chemical” smell or taste to the water. The second layer is made of an ion-exchange fiber that removes heavy metals, and the third — a nanofiber membrane — catches bacteria and microscopic protozoa that can cause stomach cramps and nausea.

To purify water, you fill the bottle and twist a wheel on the bottom to move the filter through the water. After that, the rating will change to reflect how well the water has been filtered.

The bottle could come in handy if you’re on a hike and need to filter river water, or if you have a feeling your pipes need cleaning and want to make sure the tap water’s potable. More importantly, it could also help those in water crises like the one in Flint find out whether their water contains lead.

The Ecomo has three parts. The first is the water-holding reservoir itself, which contains the net-like filter. A second layer below that is a removable, wearable device that’s built into the bottle. It has a screen that can remind you to drink enough water (a feature that’s been in more than a few smart bottles thus far). The third layer contains the quality monitor and the filter wheel, which also features an indicator that tracks the lifespan of your filter.

A Kickstarter fundraising campaign for the Ecomo is expected to launch October 5. The bottles will start at $129 each for early bird backers, and are expected to ship in March 2017.

For city dwellers who are confident in the quality of their water, the product might be a bit overkill — there are already Brita filter water bottles on the market, and many tiny particulates in your drinking water are actually safe.

But if you’re worried about the purity of your water supply, you might appreciate the ability to make sure what you’re drinking is safe.

Here is what a recent Costa Mesa client had to say about his new water filter system.

Benefits of filtered and RO water so far:
1. Kids say they feel more rejuvenated from showers
2. Water tastes 100% better than bottled
3. Saving $ and minimizing waste by cancelling bottled water
4. Vegetable garden significantly healthier and plants more vigorous
5. Feel better about the water quality given to dogs and chickens
6. Install was as promised; clean, quick, professional, discreetly located
7. System was designed and properly sized based on our individual needs

“Rick is a consummate professional and delivered a great product as promised! We would highly recommend contacting him for an evaluation.” J.O., Costa Mesa, California.

We have created a new satellite website called stoppinholes.com. This site will thoroughly address the pinhole leak epidemic that many people are experiencing in Southern Orange County.

This new site goes into greater detail in regards to the causes of pinholes in copper plumbing as well as a homeowner’s possible options to solve the problem.

There are also many examples of chloramaine filters we have installed for happy clients in Ladera Ranch, San Clemente, Newport Beach, Dana Point, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest and all over Orange County, California.

If you do not own your home and live in an apartment or rental but would still like the benefits of filtered water, this is a good option.

The reason a person might choose a carbon block filter over a reverse osmosis system is because carbon block filters do not strip out the minerals and calcium like RO systems. Therefore, if you wish to keep the minerals and calcium in your drinking water this is the better choice for you.

We like the Multi-Pure filters best in this category. The solid carbon block units like the Multi-Pure drinking water filters do a much better job than the cheaper plastic Aquasana and similar counter top filters. We do not recommend any of the filters with plastic housings as they tend to crack easily, leak and require more exterior cleaning maintenance.

Multi-Pure filters contain a high-quality solid block of carbon that is set inside a stainless steel casing. The container seals tightly and we have personally never experienced any leaks. These filters are well-made, high quality items.

Most of the systems are flexible in that they can be placed either on the counter top, under the sink with a dedicated filtered water dispensing faucet, or in some cases below the sink in line with the existing faucet hardware. Installation is relatively easy. We put in this filter ourselves and it took minutes to install.

We noticed a dramatic improvement in the taste of the water immediately after installing it. Tap water tends to have heavy chemical odors and tastes, and this filter set our minds at ease quickly.

The filters cartridges need replacing periodically. The model we have direct experience with is the Multi-Pure MPCT. This filter is currently used by two adults and the filter cartridge is replaced once a year.

The MPCT has since been replaced by the MP750 series, which offers even more options for mounting or placement.

The models we recommend are: The MP750 series, MP880 series, or MP1200EL model. The letters after each model let you know what type of replacement the filter requires. SC is for counter top placement. SB is for below the sink with a dedicated filtered water faucet. SI is for the filter placed under the sink but mounted to the existing hardware. EL is a filter with a special meter that alerts you when it is time to replace the filter – This is the newest model.

To see what others have to say about these filters you can read more consumer reviews and

According to an article written in February of 2010, tests have been run confirming the presence of the insecticides such as pyrethroids in California water. The study, which was conducted by UC Berkley and Southern Illinois University researchers found the commonly used ant pesticide in some Sacramento streams and rivers. It is possibly endangering the survival of freshwater fish. It is a definite sign the river eco-system could face some trouble. The adult fish are not so much directly endanger but because the sensitive prey items of the infant fish are susceptible to the pyrethroids, the young fish might not be able to find food.

Water samples were taken from the San Joaquin River and the American River up near Sacramento. The section where the researchers worked through is considered some of the cleanest of the area. Some hypersensitive shrimp were used to point out how toxic the water was with pesticides. It was enough to kill the shrimp, which meant probably enough to kill the larvae of several species of flies the young fish eat. This is not good and obviously shows a bigger problem looming in the future.
The result of the research suggested the pesticide contaminants would continue to rise in the water unless alternatives were discovered. We found the article concerning. Read the article for more details. Pesticides.

So what does this mean to us water consumers? Well, it means that to be safe, a water purification system of some sort might be a wise investment for homeowners and renters.

In most water purification systems reviews you will see all sorts of filtration systems that go under the sink or on the counter top. You will also see whole house water purification systems. Under the sink water filters and counter-top filters are good for renters or people who do not expect to be living in a place for that long. Or they are good for drinking water applications only. They cannot stop toxins from entering your body when your pores open in a hot shower. This is the problem with those types of purification systems.

In those water system reviews you will often see whole house water systems but the problem in our eyes with these types of generic systems is they do not address YOUR specific water needs. Water filters should address the specific problems of a given city or municipal water supply. A common non-specific water filter you buy off Amazon may not do that. While it might be better than nothing, it may not be worth the money you spend on it and could be made ineffective in a short period of time if the system does not back flush itself. A water filtering system that does not back flush must be replaced often depending on the size of the home in relation to the filter size.

Obviously, at Pure Elements we favor whole house water systems because we feel they do a better job of removing the chemicals, pesticides, chlorine, and other contaminants. However, in our view it must be a CUSTOM water purification method. That is why we feel we offer a better water filtration set up than our competitors. They do not take the time to do what we do in making sure we properly address a clients concern. They say they do but they do not. How do we know? We know because we are always converting their systems over to ours or fixing their mistakes. Ask us about it.

All Pure Elements whole house water filter purification systems are customized according to the needs of our customers. We have found that no one generic water filtering system can properly eliminate all the water problems occurring across the USA. Custom whole house water filter purification systems are best because they are tailored to the specific water problems.

Tap water just isn’t good and hasn’t been for some time. We here in Irvine California as well as across the United States are being told that our drinking and bathing water is clean water but it really isn’t. And we can no longer rely on the government to take care of us or fix the problem. They might get it fixed some day but for some of us, it might be too late. That’s harsh to say but there is truth to it. Take it from someone who has done so many positive things for his health and yet still ended up in the hospital for 6 days after getting a colon tumor the size of a ping-pong ball removed. (Note: This cannot be proven to be water related and I doubt it is on its own. The combination of quality food and water as well as the environment definitely played a part in helping my condition grow. And I’ll tell you after going through this experience, I will do everything in my power to never go back in the hospital again. It is not a place you want to be.)

So we need to take personal charge of ourselves and our children’s health because no one else is capable. And one of the most important things we can do for ourselves is take into our bodies the best cleanest water we can get by using a home water purifier. After all our bodies are made up of 80-85% water so why wouldn’t we want that water to be the best quality? If you had a Ferrari, would you fill it with cheap oil and fluids? If you did that, how long do you think it would last? Why would you do anything less for the body that keeps you alive on this planet than put the best safest water into it?

Water isn’t just water. There is good and bad and that is what this blog is going to inform you about and discuss. There are solutions to getting the best quality water and many are cheaper than you think. And some of the water solutions you think are cheap are actually the most expensive out there.

Upcoming posts and articles will be touching on:

How better health through good water can provide a healthier living environment inside and outside the home.

Using a home water purifier, filter, treatment system is becoming critical and there are many reasons why this is so.

Why we must minimize reliance on plastic bottles and how to achieve quality water that meets or exceeds the standards for bottled waters, without the toxic bottles.

We’ll tell you how to achieve a water cost savings which will provide an economic benefit.

Plus we’ll discuss how to be Green conscious and help protect our environment through the use of leading edge technologies that benefit our environment and landfills.

We’ll also be exploring the many different aspects of quality water control through water softeners, water filters, reverse osmosis, and whole house water filtration systems.